Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next four years Homer Bradshaw waited alone in prison, undergoing "a slow process of starvation." Not until last October did he hear the charges against him: espionage, "maintaining radio contacts with Hong Kong, Manila, Tokyo and the U.S." Says Bradshaw: "The greatest lies I've ever heard...
...York, and the Rev. Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, president of the National Council of Churches and stated clerk of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., took to the air to bring Christmas good will to the armed forces. Cardinal Spellman laid the cornerstone of a new Catholic church in Tokyo and contributed $5,000 to help complete it before flying on to Korea for his fifth consecutive Christmas with the troops. Dr. Blake, traveling in the personal plane of Lieut. General Glenn O. Barcus of the Northeast Air Command, with the general himself at the controls, stopped at Labrador...
Married. Hironoshin ("The Flying Fish of Fujiyama") Furuhashi, 27, Japan's onetime record-breaking long-distance swimmer, holder of the world's 1,500-meter mark (TIME, Aug. 29, 1949); and Keiko Okada, 21; in Tokyo...
Talking Poor Mouth. Behind the Japanese businessman's broad smile lies an uneasy feeling. Said a Tokyo industrialist last week: "I regard the present prosperity as I do my stomach when it is full of rice. I can see it. I can feel it. Even so, I keep on wondering how long it will be before I am hungry again." Some...
...Japanese army marched into Manchuria, ambassador and commander-in-chief in Manchukuo 1934-36, tyrannical governor general of Korea 1936-42; of uremic poisoning; in Kamakura, Japan. In 1945, Minami was ordered arrested by General MacArthur with ten other class A war criminals; he was paroled last year from Tokyo's Sugamo Prison because of ill health...